This site is currently dedicated to covering the fortunes of the South Western High School MUSTANGS football team in York County, Pennsylvania. SOUTH WESTERN MUSTANGS GRIDIRON columns will be posted for a preseason review and following each game during the season. And we will follow my Alma Mater, the CUTTERS of Fair Lawn High School in Bergen County, New Jersey, with THE GRIDIRON columns by my twin brother Dick, the stadium announcer "Voice of the CUTTERS."

Saturday, October 26, 2013

THIS WEEK IN FLHS GRIDIRON HISTORY – 2013 Week 8

Fair Lawn High School opened September 13th, 1943. This history covers the years ending in “3.”

1943 – Marty Fischbein’sCUTTERS edged the CARDINALS of Westwood 7-6. During
1943-44 independently and 1984-85 in Northern Bergen Interscholastic League (NBIL) interdivisional action, our CUTTERS went 3-1 (.750) against the CARDINALS.1953 – Frank
Bennett’s Bergen-Passaic Interscholastic League (B-PIL) and co-State champion CUTTERS beat the BUCCANEERS of Bogota 21-0 in league action. - Fair Lawn and Bogota shared the 1946 B-PIL title and our CUTTERS
took the 1945-55 rivalry with the BUCCANEERS
6-3-2 (.667).

1963 – Ed
Sheehy’s CUTTERS shutout the MAROON RAIDERS ofEnglewood 38-0 in Northern New Jersey Interscholastic League (NNJIL) action. In independent action
1945-46, 1957-58 and 1986-89 and in the NNJIL
1959-71, our CUTTERS went 14-7
(.667) over the MAROON RAIDERS of
Dwight Morrow High in Englewood.

1973 – Al Reinoso’s
CUTTERS were beaten 16-8 by the COMETS of Hackensack in NNJIL action. During 1959-82 in the NNJIL the COMETS went 16-7-1 (.696) over our CUTTERS. In 1959, Fair Lawn’s maiden season in the league, our CUTTERS won 27-6 and yet saw Hackensack
take the title by half a game. Frank Bennett’s 1953 B-PIL champs shared the North Jersey, Section 1, Group III State
title with the COMETS. Mike
Alberque’s 2000 CUTTERS put up a
whale of a battle before losing 14-6 to the nationally ranked COMETS in the States. The 4-0
Hackensack lead in Big North Conference (BNC)
crossover action in 2010 – 13 has the COMETS’
record against our CUTTERS 21-7-1
(.750).

1983 – Pete
Natale’s CUTTERS were shutout 21-0
by the PALADINS of Paramus Catholic
in NNJIL action. Coach Steve Gerdy,
the old retired Passaic Valley coach, now at Paramus Catholic, used the ancient
Single Wing formation! In 1982 and 83 the PALADINS
went 2-0 (1.000) over our CUTTERS in
the NNJIL.

1993
– Mike Alberque’s CUTTERS were beaten
21-14 by the HIGHLANDERS of Northern
Highlands in NBIL action. Fair Lawn
took the 1986-93 and 1998–2008 NBIL
rivalry against the HIGHLANDERS 10-9
(.526).